Mental Health

Lil-Peep

Lil Peep’s Optimist Love Songs Lil Peep’s Optimist Love Songs

Gustav Åhr was emo-rap’s most visible representative and the genre’s most mainstream success, but what set his music apart was not its despair but its deep sense of hope.

Dec 15, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen

Oklahoma state Capitol protests

States of Neglect: Oklahoma, Iowa, and Maine Are Failing Disabled Residents States of Neglect: Oklahoma, Iowa, and Maine Are Failing Disabled Residents

Individuals with disabilities helped saved Medicaid at the federal level. Now states are abandoning them.

Nov 14, 2017 / David M. Perry

Texas church shooting

It’s the Guns. It’s Always Been the Guns. It’s the Guns. It’s Always Been the Guns.

Trump and the GOP blame mental illness for the Texas massacre. That’s a destructive lie.

Nov 6, 2017 / David M. Perry

Mental Illness Indonesia

Mental Illness Is a Global Crisis Mental Illness Is a Global Crisis

Over 80 percent of people suffering from mental-health disorders live in the Global South.

Oct 26, 2017 / Michelle Chen

Paul Ryan

Let’s Talk About Paul Ryan’s Scorching Duplicity on Gun Violence, Mental Health, and, Well, Everything Let’s Talk About Paul Ryan’s Scorching Duplicity on Gun Violence, Mental Health, and, Well, Everything

Congressman Joe Kennedy III calls out the speaker of the House for bending the truth following Las Vegas massacre.

Oct 6, 2017 / John Nichols

When I Can No Longer Work, I Will Be Destitute. What Can I Do?

When I Can No Longer Work, I Will Be Destitute. What Can I Do? When I Can No Longer Work, I Will Be Destitute. What Can I Do?

Reader, you have far more options than you realize.

Oct 5, 2017 / Liza Featherstone

Activists protest in opposition to the Senate Republican health care bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on June 28, 2017.

Republicans Are Coming for Our Health Care Again. Here’s How You Can Fight Back Republicans Are Coming for Our Health Care Again. Here’s How You Can Fight Back

You can also join a campaign to protect voting rights in your state or county.

Sep 19, 2017 / NationAction

Intersex HRW

Why Intersex Patients Need the Truth and Doctors Need to Listen Why Intersex Patients Need the Truth and Doctors Need to Listen

As an intersex woman and a doctor, I’ve seen the dangerous stigma the US medical establishment attaches to our community.

Sep 12, 2017 / Katharine B. Dalke

Donald Trump speaking at the final session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.

Surviving the Trump Years: Katha Pollitt’s Guide for the Anxious and the Depressed Surviving the Trump Years: Katha Pollitt’s Guide for the Anxious and the Depressed

Plus John Nichols on Medicare-for-All and Rosa Brooks on the generals.

Aug 3, 2017 / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

A worker assembles a football helmet in Lowell, Massachusetts.

The NFL’s Concussion Calamity The NFL’s Concussion Calamity

Dr. Chris Nowinski of the Concussion Legacy Foundation on a groundbreaking new study on CTE.

Aug 1, 2017 / Podcast / Dave Zirin

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